This case was passed on, it is said, from Rome to Philip II., King of Spain, and M.de Saint-Goard, ambassador of France at Madrid, sent Henry III.

a copy of it.

[_Memoires de la Ligue,_ t.i.

pp.

1-7.] Whatever may have been the truth about this trip to Rome on the part of the Duke of Guise, and its influence upon what followed, the chiefs of the Leaguers resolved to deal a great blow.